Notices by Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca), page 55
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Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2016 00:22:10 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca "…as more components and apps are moved to closed source versions, Google is reducing its ability to resist the demand that backdoors be introduced. It is much harder to backdoor an open source component than a closed source one." https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-improbable-hardening-android-security-and-privacy -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2016 00:04:02 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca @psema4 That says more about the !Linux Foundation than it does about #Microsoft -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2016 00:01:47 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca ♻ @psema4 Remember when M$ spent $M on FUD against #Linux, called users "communists"? Microsoft joins Linux Foundation https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/microsoft-fortifies-commitment-to-open-source-becomes-linux-foundation-platinum ¶ via #Twitter -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 23:56:47 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Mike Perry of @TorProject: "…the Copperhead project began producing hardened builds of Android. The hardening features make it more difficult to exploit Android vulnerabilities, and also provides WiFi MAC address randomization, so that it is no longer trivial to track devices using this information. Copperhead is also the only Android ROM that supports verified boot, which prevents exploits from modifying the boot, system, recovery, and vendor device partitions. Coppherhead has also extended this protection by preventing system applications from being overridden by Google Play Store apps, or from writing bytecode to writable partitions (where it could be modified and infected). This makes Copperhead an excellent choice for our base system." -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 23:43:10 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca ♻ @dangillmor Great: @torproject building on @CopperheadOS and other projects to give Android better (i.e. real) security/privacy. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/mission-improbable-hardening-android-security-and-privacy ¶ !Android !security via @GlynMoody on #Twitter -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 10:17:38 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca m♻ @AnneMarieMineur The Canadian government puts €240 million on the table to compensate (dairy farmers) for the negative effects of #CETA. So why then #CETA?! http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/artikel/10872294/veehouders-gecompenseerd-voor-ceta -
Matthew Davidson (mjd@microblog.ourcoffs.org.au)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 09:50:10 UTC Matthew Davidson #IThoughtWeFixedThis: If your site doesn't work without #JavaScript, it doesn't work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 07:02:59 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Reading the #Slashdot description it appears that encrypted data is not compromised, but, of course, with a root shell the entire drive could be wiped, LUKS partition and all. !crypto !security -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 06:29:48 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca ♻ @slashdot Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access On Some Linux Systems http://m.slashdot.org/story/318821 ¶ !crypto !security via @HackerFantastic on #Twitter -
Christopher M. Hobbs (hobbsc@gs.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2016 00:44:17 UTC Christopher M. Hobbs @bobjonkman you're too patient. I normally just gobble up a fistfull of beans, chew them real good, and pour boiling water onto my face in the morning. -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2016 21:03:53 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca I make pour-over !coffee, watching each drop of water embrace every ground to ensure optimum caffeination -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2016 19:32:53 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca @morph @hobbsc The s.russwurm.org instance was down for a while, but it's been back since around June. Let me know if I need to #KickTheDaemons -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2016 23:45:31 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Listening to Intergalactic !Wasabi Mix -- not bad for a #Canadian! -
Defective by Design (dbd@status.fsf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2016 22:20:01 UTC Defective by Design Tim Berners-Lee: Are you really giving up on free Web standards? #WhatWouldTimblDo? https://u.fsf.org/1zg https://u.fsf.org/1zi -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2016 23:34:37 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Although this is a close second https://i.imgflip.com/px0vw.jpg #BidenMeme -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2016 23:31:24 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca My favourite #BidenMeme so far https://66.media.tumblr.com/510c3dddab7356fc399095901a015643/tumblr_o9vogpcpt81rpje20o1_500.jpg -
Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz@social.mikegerwitz.com)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2016 17:01:11 UTC Mike Gerwitz This article, while it does mention Qubes, fails to mention one of the most obvious and important things users can do: stop using proprietary operating systems, especially Windows 10. Apple at least places emphasis on user security, but they can still betray you at any moment without your knowledge.
If you're not interested in switching away from your proprietary operating system, don't do anything sensitive on it.
The article also mentions installing updates promptly: on a proprietary operating system, you're in a pretty bad situation; you need the security updates immediately, but those updates could introduce e.g. backdoors. This is possible for free/libre OS's like GNU/Linux as well---update mechanisms are considered by a number of security experts to be a sort of universal backdoor---but the software at least has a chance to be inspected by the community and the package maintainers. Some distros /package mangers put emphasis on security and reproducible builds, like Debian and Guix. And remember that, while it's impossible to have security without free software, the reverse isn't necessarily true. If you can use software with reproducible builds, then you can also be sure that the binary wasn't compromised.
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Bob Jonkman, Green Party Candidate (bobjonkmangpc@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2016 23:22:54 UTC Bob Jonkman, Green Party Candidate Off to the theatre! Seeing @RichardWalshGPC's production of "An Enemy Of The People" http://kwpeace.ca/event/an-enemy-of-the-people-a-play-about-blowing-the-whistle-on-a-water-safety-crisis/?instance_id=2258 -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2016 23:01:01 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca Sure! Although I'm still running !StatusNet v1.1.1 -- gotta get that #RoundTuit In conversation from sn.jonkman.ca permalink -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2016 22:07:07 UTC Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca @takeshitakenji I hope you write up what you did and post it so the rest of us can follow your recipe for better !GNUsocial performance! In conversation from sn.jonkman.ca permalink